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is only now being taught by the Red
Cross, annual death toll was 4,500.
The bedroom is shown by safety ex-
perts to be the most dangerous room
in the house, largely due to falls and
walking in the dark. On the farm, ma-
chiL’ry causes the greatest number of
accidental deaths, with injury by ani-
mals ranking second.
The American Red Cross launched
its third annual Home and Farm Ac-
cident Prevention campaign this fall.
More than ten million check lists show-
ing hazards were carried home by
school children, including members of
the Junior Red Cross. Parents were
asked to check these lists against con-
ditions which might exist and from
which accidental death or serious in-
jury might result if repairs were not
made, or caution observed. This widely
acclaimed safety program is one of the
many services of the Red Cross sup-
ported through its annual roll call for
members conducted by chapters and
their branches in 12,000 communities.
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killed by accidents in their homes You take your life in your hands every time you commit one of these careless
totalled 38,500. Safety drives in indus- acts: At top, left, if the knife slips grave injury will be the result. Can-openers
tries and utilities have reduced acci- are cheap. Right, combination of a wet hand and body and broken electric wiring
dents until the deaths last year were will result in a complete electric circuit and death. Safeguard electric appliances
2,300 while on the farm, where safety in kitchen and bath. Below, this farmer handles a vicious bull with a stick to
keep it at a safe distance; had he used a rope the bull could charge him.
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|F YOU live on a heavy traffic corner
1 in a great city, it may be hard for
you to believe that the bedroom in
which you lie vainly trying to sleep
while automobiles hoot and crash on
the corner, is less safe than the busy
traffic lane.
If you live on a farm you consider
your cool barn a safer place than the
machine room of the city factory where
lathes and belts whirr all day long.
But in both instances you are wrong.
Public attention, concentrated on auto-
mobile deaths and injuries, is being di-
rected by the American Red Cross to
the fact that accidental deaths in the
home claim a greater annual toll. Auto-
mobile fatalities last year for the na-
tion numbered 37,800; while people
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Not So Bad
Teacher—“Now, children, since we
have described what trees,
and plants are, who can tell me in
his own words what grass is?”
Small Boy—“I can, teacher. Grass
is whiskers on the earth.”
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ment and replied: “The WPA.”
Judge William G. Thomas smiled,
corrected him, and then approved his
papers.—United Press.
that
them
rectly until he was asked:
“Who elects the President
flowers United States?” He thought
Trailer Era
If Emerson were a 1937 contempo-
rary we wonder if he would be
tempted to trail along with the rest
of us by writing: “Hitch your wagon
to a car.”
Sale Prices
“Business is so quiet that we had
better have a special sale,” said the
shoe merchant.
“All right,” said the store
ger, “what shall it be?”
“Well,” said the boss, “take
line of $5.00 shoes and mark
down from $10 to $8.50.”
By Inference
Teacher—“Johnny, will you please
tell the class what an octopus is?”
Johnny—“It must be a cat with
eight sides.”
Probably Had Three Rings
A minister who had married many
couples throughout years of service
was being interviewed by a news-
paper man.
“Now, Reverend, may I ask, what
is the most unusual incident you can
recall in regard to a marriage cere-
mony?”
; “Well,” replied the minister with
Smile in the News
James Lianchetti of Mauch Chunk,
Penna., won American citizenship
papers recently despite an erroneous
answer in naturalization court. Lian-
chetti answered all questions cor-J
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lieve they have less to fear in future
sessions.
Whether Allred will seek a third
term was the subject of many ru-
mors. Some had it the Governor
might try it, on a unicameral legisla-
ture issue. There was even a rumor
that Sen. Tom Holbrook, the Galves-
ton conservative, who led the econ-
omy fight, might be a candidate. But
the political results of the session
will only be apparent when the sen-
timent of the folks back
thoroughly sounded out.
Bad Egg
A school teacher relates that she
was giving her small pupils a lesson
on birds, and after telling about the
hatching of the eggs, the care of the
mother bird and the first lessons in
flying, she said: “Now, children, I
am the mother bird and you are the
little birds nestled in your cozy nest.
I want you all to spread your wings
and fly away.”
Each child, waving arms to the
music she beat, skipped to the dress-
ing room, with the exception of one
little fellow, who remained in his
seat. Turning to him she said: “Don-
ald, why didn’t you fly away with all
the other little birds?”
“’Cause,” came the prompt, un-
expected reply, “I was a bad egg.”
City Visitor—“I see there’s a fac-
tory putting out milk made from
hay.”
Farmer—“Well, that ain’t more’n
my cows do every day.”
New Pond
“Any luck?” asked the farmer as
he came upon a man fishing in
pond.
The angler shook his head.
Later that day the farmer ;
peared again.
“Any luck?” he asked once more.
“No,” muttered the fisherman.
“Are there any fish in this pond?”
“Don’t rightly know,” mused the
farmer. “The pond wasn’t here yes-
terday.”
Youthful Grandmothers
Mrs. Noowedd—“Will you admire
me when I’m old, dear?”
Noowedd—“Why not? Nowadays a
grandmother looks as chic as any-
body.”
Definitions
Honesty—Fear of being caught.
Good Sport—One who will always
let you have your own way.
Moron—One who is content with a
serene mind.
Pessimist — One who sees things
as they are.
Coach—Fellow who will gladly lay
down your life for the school.
Conscience — The voice that tells
you not to do something after you
have done it.
Easy
“Tom, how much does a twelve-
pound tqrkey weigh?” asked the
1 teacher.
“I dunno,” confessed Tom.
“Well, what time does the
o’clock train leave?”
“Nine o’clock.”
“That’s right. Now how much does
a twelve-pound turkey weigh?”
“Oh! Now I get it—nine pounds.”
If he is without friends.
low ideals.
If he has lost his self-respect. If
his morals are questionable.
If he has lost his grip upon him-
self.
If he is selfish, uncharitable,
cruel.
If he has forfeited his health
wealth.
If his mind and soul
neglected.
If he has traded away his charac-
ter for money.
If he has a disagreeable disposition
that makes enemies and repels his
friends.
If love of money has hardened him
until the love of Christ and His gos-
pel fail to stir him to do his best for
his church.
If all investments and possessions
are laid up on earth and he has no
treasures in heaven. — Lutheran
Churclj Herald.
Now It Can Be Told
Returning American legionnaires
are telling one about their two pros-
perous looking comrades who met
during the recent festivities. One in-
troduced himself as Mr. Blank, vice-
president of an important firm1 in
Louisville. The other remarked it
was odd they had not met before as
he was Mr. So-and-So, vice-presi-
dent of a well known railroad serv-
ing Louisville. They became conven-
tion friends, promised to look each
other up back home.
Lase week they met, outside Louis-
ville. A pipefitter in a ditch thought
the voice of a brakeman, who was
waving a lantern from the rear of a
caboose, sounded very familiar. It
was.
The two “vice-presidents” there-
upon held another convention in
Louisville.—Paul Mallon in Boston
Herald.
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Pension Outlook
Some reduction in pension
ments during the next few
re-
and
pay-
months
may result, although little credence
is ..placed in the statements made
while the session was on that pen-
sions might be suspended. These are
regarded as being made largely for
political effect, and few believe the
politicians will go so far as to cut off
the only means of existence of 113,-
000 old people, even to carry a politi-
cal point. The bank holding the
State’s notes for the $1,600,000 bor-
rowed earlier, has indicated its will-
ingness ro work with the Board of
Control in handling the debt on some
extension basis. Meanwhile, members
of House and Senate and the Gov-
ernor were continuing their exchange
of publicity shrapnel, seeking to lay
the blame for failure of the session
on each other.
Wait for Verdict
Meanwhile, two groups were anx-
iously awaiting news of the attitude
of the folks back home. They were
the special interests lobby and the
politicians. The lobby was divided
in its opinion. The conference bill
carried moderate tax increases, and
some of the lobbyists feel it would
have been better to take reasonable
tax increases. Now they feel pretty
certain the fight must be waged all
over again in February or March, at
another session. This could have been
■avoided, some feel, for at least an-
other 14 months until the next regu-
lar session, if the conference bill had
passed. Others, cheered by their suc-
cess in cutting down the Governor’s
$15,000,000 tax plan to $4,000,000, be-
AUSTIN.—“Who killed the Cock
Robin tax bill?” was the favorite
topic of conversation in Austin this
week, in the wake of the special ses-
sion, which ended without any action
toward raising revenue.
The record is fairly clear. The
House and Senate conferees wrote
an omnibus bill, increasing tax rates
on natural resources, corporation
franchises, public utility gross
ceipts, cement manufacture,
stock and commodity exchanges,
which would have yielded between
$3,000,000 and $4,000,000 of new
revenue. It allocated funds as fol-
lows:
For old-age assistance $300,000
from additional revenue provided
the general fund, plus $1,600,000 to
pay off the loan of the pension fund
±rom a Dallas bank.
For teachers retirement fund,
$750,000.
Aid to needy blind, $300,000.
Aid to dependent children $750,-
coo.
The bill would have re-allocated
school funds—after this year—back
to the one-fourth provided by the
constitution, leaving undisturbed the
larger school revenues for this fiscal
year, to insure payment of the $22
per capita apportionment.
It eliminated entirely the $5,000,-
000* reduction in appropriations
which the Senate had passed, and it
slso eliminated the provision in the
House bill demanding that the abil-
ity of children to support their par-
ents should not be taken into consid-
eration in determining the eligibility
of the old folks for pensions. That
provision proved the stumbling block
that killed the bill, when the House,
on motion of Bryan Bradbury of Ab-
ilene, voted to instruct its conference
eommittee to stand pat and demand
its inclusion.
Reliberalization Rejected
This would have thrown the old
age pension rolls wide open again,
and the Senate conferees declined to
accept it. Efforts to get the House to
withdraw from its position failed ut-
terly, when the “pensions for every-
body” bloc joined by the “no taxes”
group, resulted in a clear majority
land voted to stand pat.
! A record vote was had on motion
of Bond, of Fairfield, to instruct the
House conferees to sign the confer-
ence report. It was defeated, 56 to
75.
TWO MEN
An established connection with a conservative
but progressive bank will add to your facilities for
judging business opportunities and reaching sound
decisions. Your relations with it, being on a strictly
confidential basis, will enable you to discuss freely
whatever financial problems or contemplated course
of action may be on your mind. The bank may be
able to point out pitfalls—it may, on the other hand,
be able to give you the constructive suggestions
needed to encourage you to go ahead.
Helping individual initiative to see and develop
opportunity for success has been the outstanding tra-
dition of American banking throughout its history.
It is the controlling policy of this bank.
One may find in them the circumstances that
make for a successful business enterprise—the other
may miss the point entirely.
—MAY HAVE EQUAL
OPPORTUNITIES, BUT—
The First National Bank
Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Accident Hazards in Home and on Farm
e Cause Greatest Annual Death Toll
THE SPICE OF LIFE
Quality Lumber
Our lumber yard has never been so perfectly and
generously equipped to fill every possible need in
our line.
The sound of the saw and the hammer is heard
again, now that the Better Housing Program encour-
ages homeowners to make needed repairs and thus
safeguard and increase the value of their property.
Whitewright Lumber Co.
“Neighborly Service”
Modernization means making old houses more val-
uable, livable and architecturally charming ... it
also means adding rooms or sun porches ... re-
modeling attics and basements into useful rooms.
THE WHITEWRIGHT SUN, WHITEWRIGHT, TEXAS
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dear. Yours and
Vera
Even If It’s Brick Veneer—
Its Vitals are WOOD
Unless the lumber going into the frame work is
properly seasoned, it will dry out in the house. As it
drys it will shrink, causing joints to open, joists, sills
and studs to twist, partitions to get out of plumb.
When these things happen the brick veneer cracks
and pulls away from window and door sills, causing
expensive repairs and alterations.
If you sawed a brick veneer house in two, you
w’ould find that it IS ACTUALLY a wooden house,
and that the brick around the outside of the house is
JUST what it says .... veneer.
You can avoid this trouble and expense by using
long-leaf kiln-dried pine for the frame work of your
brick veneer home. It is scientifically seasoned in
dry kilns. It will hold its shape and size after being
put into the house because its moisture content has
been reduced to that of the atmosphere.
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Willing To Try
Jellybean—“Darling, do you think
you can manage on $25 a week?”
Flapper — “Get the license, dear,
I’ll try it a week.”
Saving Time
“Dear, I saw the sweetest, cleverest
little hat downtown today.”
“Put it on; let’s see how you look
in it.”
L. LaRoe & Co
Everything To Build With
How Permanent Is Permanent?
Hubby—“We’ve simply got to cut
down expenses, Ethel. Couldn’t you
make a permanent wave last a week
or two longer?”
He’ll Get Along
Wife—“There are two sides to ev-
ery question.”
Husband—“Yes,
the wrong one.”
a few days later stopped him
inquired:
“Mose, why did you buy a
bill of groceries from Mr. Jones aft-
er I have carried your account so
long?”
Mose looked surprised and replied:
“Mah goodness, Mr. Smith, I didn’t,
know you sold groceries fo’ cash.”
He Didn’t Know
Mose became heir to a few
dred dollars and immediately
down town to pay a grocery account
of long standing. After which,
strolled down the street into
Jones store and purchased a
The English Lesson
“Mummy, may me -and
bathe?”
“Not ‘me and Vera,’ darling. ‘Vera
and I’.”
“Yes, but what about me?”
a twinkle in his eye, “I think the
time that the groom reached directly
into the right pocket and produced
the ring at the right time without a
fumble or a tremble and placed it on
the girl’s finger faultlessly. I was so
surprised that I asked him later
what his profession was. He replied
that he was a circus man—a ring-
master.”
ous roll of the sea below.
“And you say you were in the town
where I live last week?” she mur-
mured softlyX
“Yes!”
“And you thought of me, John?”
she cooed.
“Aye, I did,” replied John. “I said
to myself, ‘Why, isn’t this where
what’s-her-name lives’?”
Tempering the Wind
Sailor—“Don’t bother me. I
writing to my girl.”
Marine—“But why are you writ-
ing so slowly?”
Sailor—“She can’t read very fast.”
Thinking of Her
They apparently had not met for
some time. They were sitting in the
gloaming, listening to the languor-
Literary
“Now, boys,” said the schoolmas-
ter, “the word novelette means “a
short tale.’ You may now write in
your copybooks a sentence contain-
ing the word.”
A few minutes later he picked up
Johnny Brown’s effort, and read
aloud: “Yesterday I saw a fox terrier
running down our street with a tin
can tied to his novelette.”
supply of groceries, for which
paid cash.
The groceryman with whom he
had the large account saw him, and
a few days later stopped him and
Exactly!
During a financial panic a farmer
went to a bank for some money. He
was told that the bank was not pay-
ing out money but was using cash-
ier’s checks.
He could not understand this and
insisted on money.
The officers took him in hand, one
after another, with little effect. At
last the president tried his hand, and I
after a long and minute explanation,
some inkling of the situation seemed
to be dawning on the farmer’s mind.
Much encouraged, the president
said: “You understand now how it
is, don’t you?”
“I think I do,” admitted the farm-
er. “It’s like this: When my baby
wakes up at night and wants some
milk, I give him a milk ticket.”
Thursday, November 4, 1937.
By Julian Capers Jr.
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The Whitewright Sun (Whitewright, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 4, 1937, newspaper, November 4, 1937; Whitewright, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1230771/m1/3/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Whitewright Public Library.